Homeland Security, Militarism, and the Future of Latinos and Latinas in the United States

Radical History Review

Volumn 2005, Issue 93, 2005, Pages 39-52

  Mariscal, Jorge ^a  

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EID: 85050841981     PISSN: 01636545     EISSN: 15341453     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/01636545-2005-93-39     Document Type: Note

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2. See Robert Pollin, Contours of Descent: U.S. Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity (London: Verso, 2003).
3. “The Road to a College Diploma: The Complex Reality of Raising Educational Achievement for Hispanics in the United States,” The Interim Report of the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2002), 6.
4. Robert Suro and Jeffrey S. Passel, The Rise of the Second Generation: Changing Patterns in Hispanic Population Growth (Washington, DC: Pew Hispanic Center, 2003).
5. Otto Santa Ana, Brown Tide Rising: Metaphors of Latinos in Contemporary American Public Discourse (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002).
6. “Our View: MEChA Issue Is a Red Herring,” North County Times (San Diego), September 12, 2003, www.nctimes.com/articles/2003/09/12/opinion/editorials/9_12_0319_53_32.txt (accessed April 14, 2005). For my defense of MEChA, see Jorge Mariscal, “MEChA: The Right’s Tool to Further Anti-Mexican Racism,” San Diego Union Tribune, September 10, 2003.
7. Letter dated December 4, 2003.
8. Emphasis in original. Letter dated September 3, 2003.
9. Jerry Seper, “Top Court to Expedite Hearing,” Washington Times, January 24, 2004, www.washtimes.com/archive/. I want to mention briefly the debate that took place in the United Nations immediately before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, specifically Mexico’s antiwar position and the Bush administration’s diplomatic pressure on and economic threats against the Vicente Fox government. In the February 27, 2003, issue of the Economist, it was reported that an American diplomat told Mexican officials that a Mexican “no” vote in the UN might “stir up feelings” against Mexicans in the United States. www.economist.com (accessed April 14, 2005).
10. Joseph Farah, “America’s ‘Palestinians,’ ” World Net Daily, November 15, 2001, www. worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25337.
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14. Patrick J. Buchanan, Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization (New York: St. Martin’s, 2002), 125–26.
15. George Will, “Making California Matter to the GOP,” San Diego Union-Tribune, February 29, 2004.
16. Joseph Perkins, “Immigrant Sweep Needs a Broader Brush,” Coast News (San Diego), February 14, 2002.
17. “The Road to a College Diploma,” 7.
18. Peter Schmidt, “Academe’s Hispanic Future,” Chronicle of Higher Education online edition, November 28, 2003, chronicle.com/chronicle/v50/5014guide.htm.
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21. Louis Caldera, “U.S. Army Has Plenty to Offer Youth,” Los Angeles Times, June 4, 1999; Sydney J. Freedberg Jr., “Not Enough GI Joses,” National Journal online edition, August 14, 1999, nationaljournal.com/.
22. Quoted in Mark Holston, “Soldier of Fortune,” Hispanic (December 2003), www. hispaniconline.com/magazine/2003/dec/CoverStory/index.html (accessed February 2, 2004).
23. Macarena Hernández, “Pentagon Courts Hispanics,” San Antonio Express-News, October 10, 2002.
24. U.S. Department of Defense, “September 2001 Current Population Survey,” Table B-30 (“Fiscal Year 2001 Active Component Enlisted Members by Occupational Area, Service, and Race/Ethnicity”). Data from Bureau of Labor Statistics and U.S. Census Bureau, www.defenselink.mil/prhome/poprep2001/appendixb/b_30.htm (accessed May 29, 2003).
25. “Strategic Partnership Plan for 2002-2007.”
26. For a first-hand account by a Los Angeles teacher, see Arlene Inouye, “Educators go to Boot Camp,” Draft Notices, March–April 2005 (San Diego: Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft), 1–4. U.S. Marine Corps Educator Workshop Program, ews.4mcd.usmc.mil/whyyou.asp (accessed April 14, 2005).
27. Jeff Janowiec, “Educators’ Workshop: What All Recruiters Should Know,” U.S. Marine Corps, www.usmc.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/main5 (accessed February 5, 2004).
28. California Troops to Teachers, coordinated by the Sacramento County Office of Education, www.scoe.net/troops/ (accessed April 14, 2005).
29. Rosalind S. Helderman, “Turning Troops into Teachers,” Washington Post, January 19, 2004.
30. Elizabeth Burmaster, State Superintendent, “Memo to District Administrators,” November 2003, State of Wisconsin, Department of Public Instruction, www.dpi.state.wi.us/dpi/esea/ pdf/1103army.pdf (accessed April 14, 2005).
31. Karl Liebknecht, Militarism and Anti-militarism, trans. Alexander Sirnis (1907; New York: Dover, 1972), 20.